Word Meanings - SUPERSTRUCTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Built or erected on something else. Hammond.

Related words: (words related to SUPERSTRUCTIVE)

• ERECTILITY
  The quality or state of being erectile.
• BUILT
  Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
• ERECTIVE
  Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.
• ERECTO-PATENT
  Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
• ERECTLY
  In an erect manner or posture.
• ERECTOR
  A muscle which raises any part. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, erects.
• ERECTNESS
  Uprightness of posture or form.
• ERECTER
  An erector; one who raises or builds.
• ERECTABLE
  Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.
• SOMETHING
  1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something
• ERECTION
  The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue. (more info) 1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall,
• ERECTILE
  Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated. Erectile tissue , a tissue which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by the distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains.
• ERECT
  Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached. (more info) 1. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. Two of far nobler shape,
• JERRY-BUILT
  Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
• ICE-BUILT
  1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
• OVERBUILT
  Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
• PREERECT
  To erect beforehand.
• REERECT
  To erect again.
• SEA-BUILT
  Built at, in, or by the sea.
• CLINCHER-BUILT
  See CLINKER-BUILT
• CARVELBUILT
  Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
• FRIGATE-BUILT
  Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
• CLOUD-BUILT
  Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.
• HIGH-BUILT
  Of lofty structure; tall. "High-built organs." Tennyson. The high-built elephant his castle rears. Creech.
• AIR-BUILT
  Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.